Artist Peter Max's colorful creations span 50 years

Max, whose work has been seen by more than a billion people, is getting ready for a new year of shows. He rose to fame in the '60s with his psychedelic figures and vibrant colors. Michelle Miller spoke with the painter who's always taking pop culture to the max.

[@RANDY4410]

I first heard of Peter Max around 1971 when i was 15 i brought a few of his posters and put them on my room wall i had a florescent light back then and i had paintings on the wall that glowed in the dark his paintings was beautiful.

[@deepspace28]

What a man ! Beautiful Soul !!!! HIs speaks for it self 👉🏽pure JOY

[@pearlshark1]

The greatest living artist... unimaginable talent.

[@AbstractARTpaintings]

Incredible, iconic. Thank you.m

[@caligreen4208]

Max owes money to auction that he bought 36 corvettes that he resold in horrible condition 😂😂😂

[@jc6594]

Happy 80th Birthday Peter Max <3

[@whoasked9500]

The only thing I like about this guy is that he painted a car drievn by Dale Earnhardt in the year 2000.

[@rosievela9909]

My love ❤

[@GgZoo-iK3to]

I was asked to do a memorial piece for big fan. I gotta figure out how to turn the 41st state. Little difficult but challenging. But what a honor. Though I am not a fan of the Beatles. I'm more of the Doors n Black Sabbath n Styper myself. But dig the imgination n loved ol animations of Peter Max.

[@nielspemberton59]

I'd love to see Peter Max paint a Boeing 777 for Ubited Airlineswith his psychedelic figures and vibrant colors. Then after that Diesel Locomotives for CSX, Norfolk Southen and Amtrak.

[@nielspemberton59]

I'd love to see Peter Max paint a Boeing 777 for United Airlines with his psychedelic figures and vibrant colors. Then after that Diesel & Electric Locomotives for CSX, Norfolk Southern, and Amtrak.

[@jfishization]

nto my wife sheree, Met him last week at Park West collectors event in Sarasota FL Ritz C......I bought his art last year and this year. I thanked him for the BLUE meanies

[@MrMelgibstein]

Heinz Edelmann was the real Beatles artist.Thats where the true phychedlic art is.

[@ryanguinn7980]

he coo coo

[@Morenooooooo309]

How did they estimate his work has been seen by a billion people?

[@vivianburton5800]

Hi friend

[@SlobZombie]

His newer stuff seems lazy but he earned that right

[@offbeat65]

Enough of the brazen lie about Heinz Edelmann already. He didn't need to imitate Max and his bland RGB pap. He had plenty of style and imagination, and mountains of credit under his belt, well before Max came onto the scene. Just check the archives of any important graphic art publication, like Graphis. Edelmann is a constant presence from the late Fifties till the Eighties, while Max is a flash in the pan under the "1968 hippy poster" tag, and that's it. The fact he repeatedly postured, before an ignorant American audience, as the one who had done the job for the Yellow Submarine movie, going as far as to call Edelmann an imitator, shows a deplorable character. He should be sued by the Edelmann estate. Too much is too much.

[@fawnteach8778]

🔷️🔷️🔷️ His 52 year old wife killed herself today

[@sebastiangensler5249]

dumm